My dad is an enthusiastic (狂热的) runner who     1     (great) influenced me when I was young. So I was very sporty before the age of 14．However, when my family moved, my new school didn’t pay much attention     2     sports and had no after-school activities like football or running. Over the next few years. I stopped exercising apart from during Physical Education lessons at school. I looked like I was     3     (health). However, I was not.

One day, I was late for a bus, tried to run after it and in under a minute was out of breath! This made me realize how unfit I was.     4     (help) myself get in shape again. I made a (n)     5     (decide) that I would take up a kind of sport.

A friend of     6     (I) suggested a swimming pool     7     is close to my house. Now, I’m a swimming lover! I find swimming in the pool very     8     (relax).I swim for an hour three times a week. I hope that I will soon start to feel     9     benefits of regular exercise, and     10     fitter than before.